5 OCTOBER 1901, page 7

Mr. Asquith.

M R. ASQUITH'S speech at Ladybank on Saturday last has many good things in it, but on the whole it is disappointing, for it fails in the one thing needful at the present......

Mr. Rider Haggard On Agriculture.

1V[ It. RIDER HAGGARD has now finished the survey of English agriculture which he has been publish- ing in the Daily Express, and the conclusions at which he has arrived are......